Posts Tagged ‘Deployment’

Please! No Deployment Talk This Christmas!

By • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Pre-Deployment

Dear Santa: Thank you for bringing my husband home right before Christmas. It is the best Christmas present I could ask for this year. Since my husband and I got engaged in December 2004, we have only been able to spend 2 Christmases together so this will definitely be a special holiday for us! However, […]



I became part of the Deployment…

By • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Combat Stress, Communication, Post-Deployment, Relationships

I received an email today from an Army Commander who had just learned that Paul and I divorced. He told me that he was planning a relationship workshop for his troops, who are currently deployed. I wrote back, telling him that I thought it was a wonderful – and much needed – idea. Then, as I mulled over […]



Military Tries to Predict PTSD

By • Nov 23rd, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, In the Press, Relationships

Military Experiment Seeks to Predict PTSD By Alicia Chang / Associated Press Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images. Smiling kids embracing a soldier. A dog sniffing blood oozing […]



Can PTSD Be Eliminated?

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, In the Press, Relationships

The Sensitive Soldier: Can US troops be rewired to be impervious to trauma? In the wake of Fort Hood, Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum launched a groundbreaking program to eliminate PTSD. By Gail Sheehy / The Daily Beast “How am I going to get people to focus not on tragedy, but on resilience?” Brigadier General Rhonda […]



Nothing Could Stop This Day From Coming…

By • Nov 18th, 2009 • Category: Parenting, Pre-Deployment, Relationships

Here is a post from Michelle, who is sending her husband, Dave – an Air Force JAG officer – off to Afghnaistan. You can read her blog here. In the past 8 days, there has been a promotion, a diagnosis of developmental disorder, an ear infection, military paperwork, and Hurricane Ida, but nothing could stop this […]



Making it 26.2 Miles Alone

By • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Passing the Time

It definitely helps me to have a hobby or interest (or two) that can keep me busy while my husband is gone. Running is something that really helps me get through the hard times. It has a spiritual aspect for me that I really cannot explain. This year I decided to run the Marine Corps […]



For my Soldier Ex-Husband, on Veteran’s Day

By • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Combat Stress, Communication, Post-Deployment, Relationships

Today is Veteran’s Day. And your 33rd birthday. I guess there was no way to avoid thinking about you today. But the truth is, I think about you a lot. I think about you every time I update this blog. Every time there’s a story in the news about a soldier that was killed; or […]



Missing Memories & Making New Ones

By • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: Featured

I am currently on my fifth deployment, but this one is a little different than the rest. First off, I am not in Iraq or Afghanistan, second I had the option to turn this one down, and third we are somewhere in the Caribbean and Central America. I was alerted to this deployment in August, […]



Reach Out to Family/Friends for the Support You Need

By • Oct 27th, 2009 • Category: Civilian Support, Communication, Featured, Passing the Time, Relationships

Just because your spouse/partner is deployed, doesn’t mean you are totally alone. (Although, sometimes it can feel like it!) You do have a support system made up of extended family and friends; most of us just don’t take the time to access it when we don’t need it! My mom was an Army wife. Even […]



Preparing for Another Deployment

By • Oct 26th, 2009 • Category: Parenting, Passing the Time, Pre-Deployment, Relationships

Ideas from a Veteran Army wife about preparing for a deployment (This is her 5th!) You can read more from her blog here. You would think after 4 year long deployments, I would be an old pro at this, but every deployment is different, and so it’s time to start thinking about this next one. […]




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